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Researchers: Literature Notes, PDF Highlights, and Cross-Paper Questions

One collection per project, papers as pages, color highlights for methods vs claims, and AI chat scoped to your corpus — a researcher-friendly Shelf workflow.

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constitutional-amendments.pdf

Basic Structure doctrine limits Parliament's power to amend the Constitution beyond its core identity.

Kesavananda Bharati (1973) established that certain features cannot be destroyed by amendment.

Study AI

Explain this highlight

The Basic Structure doctrine means amendments cannot alter the Constitution's essential character.
Short notes

Project-scoped collections

Name a collection after the paper or grant. Topics for Related work, Methods refs, and To cite. Keep your manuscript draft as a doc page in the same collection.

Avoid mixing unrelated fields in one collection — retrieval quality drops when scope is too wide.

constitutional-amendments.pdf

Basic Structure doctrine limits Parliament's power to amend the Constitution beyond its core identity.

Kesavananda Bharati (1973) established that certain features cannot be destroyed by amendment.

Study AI

Explain this highlight

The Basic Structure doctrine means amendments cannot alter the Constitution's essential character.
Short notes

Annotation that supports writing

Highlight claims you will cite; mark methods that influence your design. Use Study AI: Extract the contribution statement from this abstract and related work section.

Paste extractions bullets into a synthesis doc page with your own critique beneath.

case-law.pdf
Source A
notes.pdf
Source B

Cross-paper comparison

Library-wide Study AI with collection scope: Contrast evaluation metrics used in papers A and B. Follow up: Which limitations appear in both?

Always open the cited PDF to verify — AI accelerates skimming, humans own the citation.

Shelf — Library
Polity notes
Current affairs
Essay drafts

Split view for writing

Draft doc on one side, source paper on the other. Tabs for multiple papers during lit review marathons.

constitutional-amendments.pdf

Basic Structure doctrine limits Parliament's power to amend the Constitution beyond its core identity.

Kesavananda Bharati (1973) established that certain features cannot be destroyed by amendment.

Study AI

Explain this highlight

The Basic Structure doctrine means amendments cannot alter the Constitution's essential character.
Short notes

Planner as research ops

Tasks: Finish related-work skim, Submit IRB, Draft results. Link to pages. Events for lab meetings.

case-law.pdf
Source A
notes.pdf
Source B

Storage and file hygiene

Prefer publisher PDFs with selectable text. Rename downloads to AuthorYear-ShortTitle before upload for ⌘K searchability.

Shelf — Library
Polity notes
Current affairs
Essay drafts

Privacy for unpublished work

Your library is account-private. Do not paste confidential drafts into generic public chatbots when Shelf can answer from local uploads instead.

constitutional-amendments.pdf

Basic Structure doctrine limits Parliament's power to amend the Constitution beyond its core identity.

Kesavananda Bharati (1973) established that certain features cannot be destroyed by amendment.

Study AI

Explain this highlight

The Basic Structure doctrine means amendments cannot alter the Constitution's essential character.
Short notes

From notes to manuscript

Weekly: ask Study AI for a mind map of themes in this month’s highlights. Use it as an outline checkpoint, then write in your own voice.

case-law.pdf
Source A
notes.pdf
Source B